Terror Probe's Long Tendrils
Reach Into Wall Street's Fringe

By

Michael Schroeder, Gary Fields, Ianthe Jeanne Dugan and

Aaron Elstein Staff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal

Updated May 24, 2002 12:01 a.m. ET

The investigation that led to charges against five people, including a current and a former FBI agent, with using confidential government data to manipulate stock prices was an almost accidental result of probes into the Sept. 11 terror attacks and to some degree convicted spy Robert Hanssen.

Authorities began looking into the activities of Anthony Elgindy, an Egyptian-born investor who was among those indicted, as part of the wide-ranging net cast by investigators looking for potential financiers of Muslim groups with...